Transcript: January 24, 1995


Venue: The Roxy
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Hole Lineup: Courtney Love (Guitar/Vocals), Eric Erlandson (Guitar), Melissa Auf der Maur (Bass/Background Vocals), and Patty Schemel (Drums).


Another artist’s instrumental music is playing.

(Cut)

Audience screams, then starts chanting “Hole.”

CL: I wanna do, like, a big announcement, ok, wait. Alright. Ok, wait, go on, go on. Um, why? Why do I have to put my feet down? Um, why am I…why am I…shut up, wait, shut up – why am I disturbing the other passengers? Is it my bunions? Um, what is it? Wait, oh, oh, I know – ?? you’re in your 50s, so they’d have to ship you off to TWA, is that it? You fucking bitch. Ok, so the next time you go for a ?? if you’re gonna fucking cuss, go back into the fucking Coach section with all the yobs.

Audience screams.

CL: Just one more thing – is it illegal to say ‘fuck’ in this country? Ok, can we do this, on the count of three, let’s get it out of our systems – one…two…three – FUCK!

Audience screams.

CL: They can only ?? Well, I’m gonna show ’em.

-PLUMP

-BEAUTIFUL SON

Courtney pants heavily into the mic.

-STARBELLY

CL: Uh, we tried.

Guy in Crowd: ?? Neil Young.

CL: (Singing) Sweet Home Alabama, where the skies are so blue, sweet home Alabama, Lord I’m comin’ home to you.

CL: Hey, ?? If you fucking throw water at me again, we’re just gonna do Sherbet songs. Yeah, I fucking lived here ??

-MISS WORLD

CL: This is Melissa Auf der Maur of Montreal.

Audience cheers.

CL: LOUDER! Louder or you’ll get Sherbet! LOUDER! LOUD!

CL: ??

MADM: ??

CL: If you pour water on it, it makes it worse ?? How come you get the fan? Oh wait, wait. ??

CL: This is a song about getting tied up and liking it a lot. ??

-JENNIFER’S BODY

CL: ??

-ASKING FOR IT

CL: It’s a ??

MADM: ??

CL: Do you know Electric ?? from Melbourne. I liked that band.

CL: This song is ?? the biggest weenie I’ve ever met ??

-GUTLESS

-BIBLE BELT

CL: That felt like the fucking Grateful Dead.

Audience: Courtney!

CL: What? Say my name ?? I can’t hear 10 people at once – what?

Audience screams.

CL: Who am I pregnant by? Oh no, now I’m done.

Audience screams.

CL: I love you too, even though we haven’t made out yet. That’s ok.

-SOFTER, SOFTEST

CL: ?? I was peeing on you. Oh, thanks for peeing on me, ok.

-I THINK THAT I WOULD DIE

Audience screams.

CL: What? What?

-INSTRUMENTAL JAM

CL: Alright, thank you for ?? at your expense. We’re really sorry, but that was a little…

CL: Shut up ??

-PRETTY ON THE INSIDE

-BEST SUNDAY DRESS (CUT)

-CREDIT IN THE STRAIGHT WORLD (CUT)

CL: ??

CL: A cute little male habit, ‘Woo hoo’, what the fuck is that? (??) What is that ‘woo hoo’?

MADM: ?? a jangle with us soon.

CL: I just hate the fact that they’re better ??

CL: She’s educated like you people. We don’t do long division until high school.

-TEENAGE WHORE

CL: People just asked me if I wanted some illegal narcotics. That’s retarded. I don’t do illegal narcotics. ??

Guy in Crowd: Burn Black!

CL: That little girl saying, ‘Show us your tits.’ Ok, you’re doing a lot for feminism, honey.

Guy in Crowd: Burn Black!

CL: Show me your tits. Are they in good shape?

CL: We get up every morning at 6 am to work out for a few hours, so, alright, I’ll compare your pecs to mine any day.

CL: Yeah, well my dick’s nine inches long too, so shut up.

-DOLL PARTS

CL: If we were in Seattle, we’d all be wearing sweaters.

-VIOLET

-SUGAR COMA

CL: Thank you.

(Encore break)

Audience starts chanting “Hole”.

(Cut)

CL: I will definitely need a ?? I just threw it on, it’s not my fault.

-I’M SO HIGH

-DRUNK IN RIO

CL: Me and Patty and Kurt wrote that song once and we covered it and we were all kinda drunk. I like it though – it’s kinda good, huh? I mean, it needs work, but for a drunk song, it’s ok.

Opening chords to Hungry Like the Wolf start and stop.

CL: Play it, dude. Play it.

-HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF

-OLYMPIA

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